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=Kurukshetra=

''' Wars And Peace.... '''

'' India Harmony '' Volume - 1 : Issue – 5 July-August, 2012

[[File: Pilgrims at Kurukshetra during solar eclipse.png| Pilgrims at Kurukshetra during solar eclipse|frame|500px]]

Kurukshetra, the holy town in the state of Haryana is also known as Dharmakshetra which means the field
of righteousness, a name well suited for its legendary past and religious predominance.The legendary
tales of this place starts with Kuru, who laid the foundations of this royal dynasty. Ironically this land
witnessed a great battle between the successors of Kuru, in which Lord Krishna played an important role.
As a cradle of Indian civilization, this place found its rendering in many of the ancient texts and most of
the books of that time contain either the description of Kurukshetra or names of personalities from there.
A large number of Vedic transcripts were composed from here and Kurukshetra was the seat of all the
social, spiritual and political traditions of the old era. Archaeological expeditions have proved that this
city was in existence during the pre-Harapan times. Situated on a great marshy plain, Kurukshetra, in the
vicinity of the foothills, was the gateway to the great Indian north. As the Aryans descended from the
mighty Himalayas, their first halt was Kashmir where the followers of Kaushal Rishi settled. Other Rishis
and their followers continued their forward march and
settled along the banks of the Saraswati river as it flowed
into the plains.

Be it the Mahabharata war in Kurukshetra in ancient times
that has held an immense lesson for humanity, or, the wars of
Panipat during the medieval times, they have been historic
watersheds, paving the way for new empires and altering the
entire socio-political discourse in India.

[[File: Lord Krishna - the charioteer.png| Lord Krishna - the charioteer|frame|500px]]

There are a number of sections of the Mahabharata that are
relatively complete in and of themselves, and are often
considered individual works that make up a larger whole.

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''' How Some Legends Of History Have Described The Gita '''

Arthur Schopenhauer, the great German philosopher
says, "I...encounter [in the Vedas] deep, original,
lofty thoughts... suffused with a high and holy
seriousness."

The early American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson,
read the Vedas daily and wrote: "I owed a
magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita"
Henry David Thoreau said: "In the morning I bathe
my intellect in the stupendous philosophy of
theBhagavad Gita... in comparison with which... our
modern world and its literature seems puny and
trivial."
So great were Emerson and Thoreau's appreciation of
Vedantic literatures that they became known as the
American transcendentalists. Their writings contain
many thoughts from Vedic Philosophy.

Other famous personalities who spoke of the
greatness of the Vedas were: Alfred North Whitehead
(British mathematician, logician and philosopher),
who stated that: "Vedanta is the most impressive
metaphysics the human mind has conceived."

Francois Voltaire stated: "... everything has come
down to us from the banks of the Ganges."
From these statements we see that many renowned
intellectuals believed that the Vedas provided the
origin of scientific thought.

Most famous of these is the Bhagavad Gita
section in which Lord Vishnu's avatar Krishna
gives advice to the prince Arjuna during the battle
at Kurukshetra, when Arjuna sees himself up
against his own family members.

[[File: Bhishma Kund at Ban Ganga.png| Bhishma Kund at Ban Ganga|frame|500px]]

The Mahabharata as an epic and a historical
occurrence covers a great deal of material, ranging
from simple histories to entire philosophies on
living. The Mahabharata begins with a claim of
completeness, stating: “What is found here may
be found elsewhere. What is not found here will
not be found elsewhere.”

Jyotisar (in modern day Haryana), or the source of
light and inspiration, is the birth place of the holy
scripture Bhagwad Gita. The site lies some 12 km
from Kurukshetra on the Pehowa road. Jyotisar
delights with its fine waterbody, bathing ghats and
small temples. Here the marble image of Lord Sri
Krishna and Arjun stand immortalised in marble:
Lord Krishna explaining to Arjun, the doctrine of
Karma through the Gita Updesh. A banyan
(believed to be an off-shoot of the original tree
under which the Lord gave His Sermon) gives
shade to the area.

[[File: Geeta Updesh Memorial at Jyotisar.png| Geeta Updesh Memorial at Jyotisar|frame|500px]]

The legend of the Ban Ganga goes back to the
final days of the Mahabharata battle when the
patriarch, Bhishma, lay mortally wounded on a
bed of arrows. In his dying moments, he felt
thirsty and, as the patriarch of both the Kauravas
and Pandavas, he sent for Arjun. It is said that
Arjuna's arrow brought the waters of the holy
Ganga to quench the thirst of Bhishma. Today the
site is worshipped as Bhishma Kund and lies some
12 km from Kurukshetra.

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